JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that outlawed abortions based on certain reasons, such as a prenatal diagnosis of Down Syndrome or the race or gender of the fetus. The court also blocked the state’s six-week abortion ban. It is, in fact, just the opposite.

Court 211

Court Criminal Law Statute Legal 211

JURIST

APRIL 20, 2022

The US Supreme Court Tuesday heard opening arguments for two cases concerning legal errors and whether courts can, and should, correct them. United States , the Court is considering the interpretation of criminal law and federal civil procedure rules. In George v. The petitioner in George v. In Kemp v.

Legal 104

Legal Legal Court Statute 104

SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

Hansen , the Supreme Court will consider whether 8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(1)(iv) , the federal law that criminalizes “encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration,” violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of free of speech. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held that Section 1324(a)(1)(iv) violates the First Amendment.

Immigration 125

Immigration Laws Government Statute 125

Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Supreme Court upheld a federal law that criminalizes “encouraging or inducing” an immigrant to come or remain in the United States unlawfully. According to the Court, the law does not run afoul of the First Amendment. The Court further found that the context and the statutory text both supported its interpretation.

Immigration 52

Immigration Court Statute Construction 52

JURIST

MARCH 5, 2024

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday issued arrest warrants against two high-ranking Russian military commanders, finding there were “reasonable grounds” to believe they committed war crimes amid Moscow’s ongoing war on Ukraine. 2022 and Mar.

Statute 239

Statute Court Criminal Law Laws 239

JURIST

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) Wednesday submitted a request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the opening of a preliminary examination into the role of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran) and the armed groups in Syria it controls in crimes committed during the conflict in Syria.

Statute 223

Statute Court Government Laws 223

JURIST

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A panel of the International Criminal Court Thursday reduced by two years the nine-year sentence of Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, convicted of a war crime for destroying religious and historic buildings in Timbuktu in 2012. While the time he spent in detention since 2015 was already deducted from his sentence.

Statute 223

Statute Court Legal Legal 223

Law 360

JUNE 6, 2021

When confronted with a notoriously broad and somewhat out-of-date statute like the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, it is important for the judiciary to continue to protect defendants from prosecutors' tortured or extreme readings of these criminal laws — and that's what the U.S. Supreme Court did this month in Van Buren v.

Criminal Law 52

Criminal Law Court Statute Laws 52

HowAppealing

APRIL 20, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this decision overturning the conviction, holding that federal prosecutors had improperly “assimilated into federal criminal law Oregon’s unlawful use of a weapon statute” to apply to a a road rage incident on a highway in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in central Oregon.

Criminal Law 100

Criminal Law Statute Court Laws 100

JURIST

JUNE 9, 2021

, commander of the Main Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army from May 12, 1992, until at least November 8, 1996, was convicted of 10 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws and customs of war by ICTY’s Trial Chamber I in 2017. The post UN court confirms Ratko Mladi? not only persisting but increasing.”

Court 232

Court Statute Laws Legal 232

JURIST

MAY 9, 2022

Law students and young lawyers in Ukraine are filing for JURIST on developments and legal issues arising as the country defends itself against Russian invasion. The Court’s limitations can barely do justice to the terror that Ukrainians are currently experiencing.

Statute 196

Statute Court Criminal Law Laws 196

Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2017

The Georgia Supreme Court this week issued a decision holding that the streaming of pre-1972 sound recordings by iHeart Media does not violate the state’s criminal statutes against the “transfer” of recorded sounds without the permission of the owner of the master recording.

Statute 40

Statute Litigation Litigating Court 40

SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

Ryan permitted defendants to raise such claims for the first time in federal court, on Monday the court ruled 6-3 that they cannot develop evidence to support those claims. Failure to do so “procedurally defaults” the claim, and a federal court cannot review it.

Court 145

Court Statute Lawyer Lawyers 145

JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Austrian environmental group AllRise announced that it filed an official complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday accusing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of “crimes against humanity” for his role in the destruction of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.

Statute 291

Statute Government Legal Legal 291

JURIST

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday approved a formal investigation into crimes allegedly committed in the Philippines between November 1, 2011, and March 16, 2019, as part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs.”

Statute 190

Statute Legal Legal Court 190

At the Lectern

JANUARY 3, 2021

A frequently invoked ground for Supreme Court review of a case is when it is “necessary. to settle an important question of law.” But offering the court an important legal issue is not alone enough to get a case heard. Sometimes, the court is just fine with the way the Court of Appeal has settled the issue.

Court 49

Court Statute Attorney Felony 49

The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

That’s a lesson worth applying to current strategies addressing the epidemic of gun violence, writes Benjamin Levin , an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. In 2000, 54 percent of the state court defendants convicted for weapons crimes were black, as compared to 44 percent white.

Criminal Law 116

Criminal Law Law School Laws Felony 116

The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Describing three Minneapolis officers who watched their colleague Derek Chauvin murder George Floyd as a deadly case of “police bystanderism,” University of Houston Law Prof.

Criminal Law 105

Criminal Law Tort Legal Legal 105

JURIST

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

” The opinion concludes that “[t]here is evidence of crimes against humanity being committed against the Uyghur population” for the purposes of Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (the Rome Statute). .”

Legal 184

Legal Legal Statute Government 184

SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

Share The Supreme Court is poised to decide yet another case involving one of the many federal statutes that govern the nation’s railroads and railworkers. The court will hear argument on Monday in LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company , a case about the scope of the Locomotive Inspection Act.

Statute 101

Statute Court Government Criminal Law 101

JURIST

AUGUST 28, 2021

In the decision, the pre-trial chamber found that the purpose of the hearing under the said rule was majorly to evaluate the detained person’s well-being and the conditions at the detention center, rather than to determine the lawfulness of continued detention. This formed the crux of the appeal.

Statute 197

Statute Laws Legal Legal 197

Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The courses in legal research and writing equipped me with the ability to efficiently locate and analyze relevant statutes, regulations, and case law. Understanding Legal Procedures I was exposed to multiple areas of law such as Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Business law, etc.,

Paralegal 265

Paralegal Paralegals Paralegal Studies Legal Research 265

JURIST

AUGUST 10, 2021

Brazil’s Indigenous People Articulation (APIB) filed Monday a statement before the International Criminal Court (ICC) requesting an investigation into alleged genocide and crimes against humanity committed by Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro.

Statute 211

Statute Legal Legal Lawyer 211

JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In covering the motions hearing last week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I noted a surprising comment from Judge Bruce Schroeder that he had “spent hours” with the Wisconsin gun law and could not state with certainty what it means in this case. It is also hard to instruct a jury on an ambiguous statute.

Statute 59

Statute Misdemeanor Criminal Law Felony 59

JURIST

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Monday he was seeking approval to resume his investigation of war crimes in Afghanistan. Khan concluded his statement by reminding those who have carried out atrocities that “there is no statute of limitations for war crimes or crimes against humanity.”

Statute 104

Statute Construction Government Legal 104

FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Gaulkin — We previously blogged about Pfizer’s copay assistance lawsuit, which sought to challenge HHS’s interpretation of the Federal health care program anti-kickback statute (AKS) and position that the company’s proposed copay assistance program would violate the AKS. Greber, 760 F.2d 2d 68, 71 (3d Cir.), denied, 474 U.S.

Mens Rea 83

Mens Rea Statute Healthcare Manufacturing 83

Conflict of Laws

MARCH 23, 2024

It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. In his paper on “Compensation, Punishment, and the Idea of Private Law”, Lukas Rademacher (University of Kiel) explained the idea of punitive damages and its compatibility with German private law.

Punitive Damages 57

Punitive Damages Compensatory Damages Tort Civil Law 57

Conflict of Laws

JUNE 17, 2022

This is a guest post by Izaak Weaver-Herrera, JD student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Supreme Court held that § 1782 discovery may be ordered only if the assembled “foreign or international tribunal” is a body which has been conferred governmental or intergovernmental authority. This was deemed “straightforward.”

Statute 52

Statute Court Criminal Law Court Rules 52

SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will delve into that question in United States v. The case involves the interaction of two federal criminal statutes. The first is the Hobbs Act , a 1946 law that makes it a federal crime to commit robbery (or attempt to do so) in a way that affects interstate commerce.

Felony 104

Felony Government Statute Court 104

The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

A common misconception, perpetuated by popular television shows and movies, as well as the Sixth Amendment, is that everyone gets their day in court. However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades.

Stare Decisis 139

Stare Decisis Lawyer Lawyers Legal 139

SCOTUSBlog

JULY 22, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. In three of the past four terms, the Supreme Court has rejected broad readings of white-collar criminal laws urged by the federal government. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. In Dubin v.

Healthcare 86

Healthcare Government Immigration Criminal Law 86

JURIST

APRIL 2, 2022

The prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Court Thursday said that it would open an office in Venezuela to aid its investigation of allegations of crimes against humanity in the country. The announcement follows the end of a second visit to the South American nation by ICC prosecutor Karim A.

Statute 104

Statute Court Criminal Law Laws 104

JURIST

AUGUST 14, 2023

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Samar Veer, a third-year law student at National Law University, Delhi. As of now, the Bills have been sent to a Parliamentary Standing Committee for review.

Criminal Law 104

Criminal Law Laws Statute Government 104

SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court has returned from its summer break and gotten down to business. The court agreed to review a dozen petitions from that conference. Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions.

Court 115

Court Tort Litigation Litigating 115

SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

Share At the last Supreme Court oral argument of Justice Stephen Breyer’s career, the court stepped into a dispute over the state of Oklahoma’s criminal jurisdiction authority in Indian country. In Indian country, state criminal jurisdiction is limited to crimes involving non-Indians only. federal enclaves).

Government 97

Government Court Criminal Law Statute 97

SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

Share With a majority opinion that will be one of Justice Stephen Breyer’s last for the Supreme Court, the court on Monday ruled 9-0 that two alleged opioids “pill mill” doctors could not be convicted absent a jury finding that they subjectively believed they were wrongfully dispensing pills. The case, Ruan v.

Mens Rea 93

Mens Rea Government Criminal Law Court 93

SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard argument on Tuesday in Denezpi v. United States , which examines whether the federal government can bring criminal charges in federal court against a defendant previously found guilty in a Court of Indian Offenses for an offense stemming from the same act.

Government 72

Government Court Laws Attorney 72